Improved button and fin for carpet-bags



W. ROEMBR. BUTTON AND'PIN P011 GARPBT'BAGS.

No. 98,300. Patented Dec. 28, 1869 tinned filtrate-z panic militia,

Letters Patent No. 98,300, dated Decanter 28, 1869.

IMPROVED BUTTON AND PIN FOR CARPET-BAGS, 80:.

The Schedule referred to in theae Letters Patent and. making part of the name To all whomit may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RoEM-ER, of Newark,

in the county of Essex, in the State of New J ersey,-

Lhave invented a new and improved Button and Pin for Satchels, Carpet-Bags, and similar articles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to the compinationof a button or a boss with a suitable pin, in such a manner that said button may be readily fastened to any desired part of the satchel or carpet-bag, to form the desired projection for these articles to rest upon, and protect thereby the material.

In the accompanying drawing- A represents a button or a boss, made of any desired shape, having at its end a recess, a, and aboss, n, in its central part, through which a pin, m, passes, provided with a large head, 1', the lower part of which fits into the recess a, in the button A.

This pin m is passed through the material out of which the satchel or carpet-bag is manufactured, and riveted on its inner side over a suitable washer, or against the material, fitstening thereby the button or projecting boss A firmly against the outside of the satchel or carpet-bag, for the protection of the material.

I am aware that projecting pieces of metal, of different shapes and forms, have been fastened to the outside of satchels or carpet-bags, as well as very be riveted.

large buttons, having a central pin cast on, and do not, therefore, claim the arrangement of a projecting cap orbutton on the outside of a satchel or carpet-' bag; the objections to these arrangements being, first, that by castingthe pin on the button, the nature of the cast material is found to be ditlicult to rivet over,

besides, that as soon as the pin breaks off, the whole button is useless; and secondly, on account of the different thicknesses of the material usedflfor these articles, various patterns, with longer or shorter pins have to be made, while in my arrangemennthe button being independent from the pin,w ill answer nearly for all, description of satchels or carpet-bags, and is more easily finished, while the pins, which are made of wrought metal, can readily be made of any length required, and of any desired hardness, but adapted to What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, isr The button or boss A, when constructed with the inside extended hub 11, and the outside recess a, around the pin-aperture, 'in coinbination witli the pin m, the head '0 of which fits closely in said recess, as

specified.

I WILLIAM ROEMER.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, J. OHN Onms'r. 

